A series of pages describing key groundwater projects in particular countries. More pages are in development.

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A series of pages describing specific, usually relatively large, groundwater projects in particular countries.

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Note: these are not comprehensive lists of groundwater projects: there are many more. If you have information on other significant groundwater projects in these or other countries in Africa, please let us know and we will add them to these lists. Contact us on AfricaGWAtlas@bgs.ac.uk

Groundwater Research in Africa

The UK government funded | UPGro research programme (2013-2019) funds the development of this Atlas, and a series of research projects aimed at Unlocking the Potential of Groundwater for the Poor. UPGro takes a social and natural science approach to enabling sustainable use of groundwater for the benefit of the poor.

The second phase of the UPGro programme runs from 2015 - 2019 with five consortium projects taking forward detailed research on specific issues of groundwater relating to socio-economic conditions in Africa. These projects are:

Groundwater research projects by country

A series of pages describing specific, usually relatively large, groundwater projects in particular countries.

Note: these are not comprehensive lists of groundwater projects: there are many more. If you have information on other significant groundwater projects in these or other countries in Africa, please let us know and we will add them to these lists. Contact us on AfricaGWAtlas@bgs.ac.uk

Groundwater research projects on transboundary aquifers

A knowledge sharing platform by IWMI, which seeks to capture and disseminate highlights of the increasing knowledge base emerging from work on transboundary river-aquifer systems in the SADC region. Most focus is on three systems: